Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a parish church with elements dating back to Norman times, largely rebuilt and restored in the 19th century. The tower is said to have Norman origins, the chancel dates from around 1300, and the south door is of the 15th century. The church is constructed of rubble with limestone dressings and quoins, featuring plain tiled roofs with raised coped verges and crestings, and a stepped, pyramidal stone roof to the tower.

The church comprises a west tower, nave, south porch, chancel, and a north vestry, all predominantly in the Perpendicular style of the 19th century. The west tower is single-stage with battered walls, featuring pointed arched lancet windows on all sides except the east, with two lower lancets to the west; the lower window on the west side has scalloped stonework to the head. The tower roof is decorated with fleur de lys at the corners and a cross finial.

The two-bay nave has two three-light windows to the north and two similar windows to the south. A central gabled porch has a moulded stilted arched opening with a hood mould and mask stops, and a lancet window on each side. The porch roof has common rafters, arched braces, a collar and collar purlin. The inner door opening to the porch is arched with Perpendicular style double doors featuring raised fillets and studs.

The chancel has a two-light east window with cusped ogee heads and Y-tracery, a pointed arch and relieving arch. A two-light south window has cusped ogee heads, cusped upper tracery, a square head, and a stopped hood mould. A blocked priest's door has a four-centred arched head and an upper cross finial. The vestry has a two-light trefoil-headed window in the gable end and a segmental-headed door to the right and a similar door to the left.

Inside, a low pointed arch leads to the tower, with a blocked circular opening above. The nave roof has common rafters, arched braces, collars, and a collar purlin. The chancel, with a roof of similar construction divided into three bays, transitions to the nave with shafts to the sides supported on foliate capitals. The chancel roof has principal arched braces rising from foliate corbels on masks, and moulded principals with carved bosses at their junctions, some of which may be re-used. A pointed segmental upper head is visible on the south door of the nave. The vestry has a common rafter and collar roof.

The church interior also contains a 19th-century stone pulpit on marble colonnettes, 19th-century pews in the chancel with poppy-head bench-ends, an octagonal stone font with a circular stem and four shafts (likely 14th century), a 19th-century stone reredos, and a wide pointed arch to the vestry. Ledger stones are found in the porch. Monuments in the nave include a tablet to Sir Nicholas Staling, gentleman usher at the court of Elizabeth I (1605), and a monument to Sir Christopher Kenn (1593) featuring three kneeling figures above a semi-reclining female figure.